Mies van der Rohe Archive

The IIT Design Build Studio designing an exhibition space at Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, led by Professor Frank Flury, is featured in Arch Daily.

March 5, 2012
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IIT Students Design New Exhibition Space at Farnsworth House

February 27, 2012
IIT Associate Professor of Architecture Frank Flury's design-build studio students have designed an adaptable exhibition space that solves the Farnsworth House’s needs of displaying the wardrobe and can also host parties and display other exhibitions.
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Associated Press reports on the efforts to restore Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, which was damaged and altered during and after WWII, noting that the architect settled at IIT after fleeing Europe.

February 12, 2012
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Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Named Among Top Artistic Breakthroughs in Chicago History

August 31, 2010
Chicago Magazine selected Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and László Moholy-Nagy as two of the most important artistic breakthroughs in Chicago history in the September article "Chicago's Top 40 Artistic Breakthroughs," recognizing Mies' design of campus master plan Illinois Institute of Technology and especially S. R. Crown Hall as the beginning of "a second golden age for Chicago architecture," and Moholy-Nagy's founding of the New Bauhaus, which became the IIT Institute of Design.
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